in fact there are more pharmaceutical industry lobbyists in washington d.c. than members of congress. with stories with. libyan rebels are gaining on the. west closer to tripoli after allied airstrikes help them. meanwhile replace the u.s. leading the coalition's campaign. foreign intervention is a result of. forces. more civilian deaths come to light.

this week hundreds of thousands marched on the streets of london and. the heart of the e.u. with many angry. for the intervention in libya. million times the norm. for the immediate evacuation of emergency workers. has been detected in the sea in the vicinity. but for now we explore a controversial mining technique where. one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in american history the first part of this.

on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home blows black and that's not normal that's coming from an abandoned home on drugs come from sorry pot. i don't know. what takes bait. out caught. maybe a few more years. and my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to the health class i don't ever look at these times not bankers in vain if i can do to help me. that are only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're doing when i want them to quit that. and.

i want to be better. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water. saluki. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred lb ments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians is number. one december twenty second two thousand and eight acall ash impoundment at the tennessee valley authorities kingston fossil plant failed when an earthen dike broke spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash sludge over three hundred acres. coal ash sludge has waste created from the burning of coal at the

kingston coal plant it is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic and mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates the cost of the cleanup job or eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. you know with all the and all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the press and you know the vanity fair's in u.s. news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're absolutely script in appalachia down to nothing. in order

to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forest in elton's that we have a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. estimates over eight hundred square miles of mountains have already been destroyed this includes the permanent destruction of over four hundred fifty individual mountain summits across the region the report also indicates the permanent loss of over twelve hundred miles of mountain streams. although federal regulations for mine reclamation require that mountaintop removal sites be returned to their original contour these mines are routinely granted waivers mined areas are typically graded and then hydro seeded with less bodies or grass which clings to the compacted shale and rock that now makes up the topsoil nature builds soil for free but she creates the soil very slowly and so you're talking about thousands of

years to go from something like a rock mass that has the essential. no soil just a very thin covering up to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds to thousands and tens of thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss from mountaintop removal mining is one point four million acres in the next decade an area equal in size to the state of delaware. by the summer of two thousand and six and wiley has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government start doing or a local school board state school board will do it in a way it shows and you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get this there are kids you know we're going to money for school one way or another. like we are going to school in our community and. it's it's showing that our government that it's come to this we can't get up and done for children. we.

were going to watch the charleston west virginia the worse we do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for a new school and it also opens a lot of doors of the blank to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our community this is a perfectly viable what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tighten our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and more are just marched for don't have them all. live at least. burning of coal those for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that and humans have done that

through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants in the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal one of the things that has to happen. is that the politicians the leaders of the administration as well as congress state legislators and administrations in the states all those leaders have got to finally say ok we want to call in the two thousand election in west virginia was widely credited with giving. president bush the margin he needed to take the oval office was the first time the west virginia had gone republican in something like seventy years and guess what's going to happen come november we're going to carry the state of west virginia thank. the

coal industry was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it was no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it throughout mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stalked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration made of white wording changing the clean water act designating waste as bill this wording change cleared the way for the expansion of mountaintop removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special me in with the with a special bond to our state please and gentlemen the president of the united states

i'm. we can do a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving you know automobiles that are fueled differently and that's going to be exciting times for america and we're just new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies so conservation. take a logical development got to be an integral part of energy. folks we need more supply you know work well i can back here in the back and i said i'm real repairing a machine that digs for coal. we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure that we. went around it. for the past twenty years larry gibson and his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company to fight all my property here me

and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people who carry cholera we don't give a damn about the people on top of a mountain all we care about is profit we are making and that was the dollar it was our body and the. know we were playing there and it is a vice president cultural production and using kids from massey coal one thousand nine hundred three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me four years a clear left family cemetery and in one thousand nine hundred ninety to now own the crater restful and eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people

through this and now even my own family. and i don't know about turned a corner how press the knob on a or that was there was before this knowing there in my own mind on. the lord is. the young of the day were never seen where i've seen the young as of the day were never seen the mountains the earth. no limits no boundaries for you to roam. gibson uses the land of capered mountain to educate the public about the effects of mountaintop removal one of the biggest questions people asked me if i had a picture of the mountain before was mr orange. here paperno why should you take a picture of a mountain for it's going to be here forever. day by day the seventy five hundred acres of active mountaintop removal mine continue to encircle his property. another family cemetery sits across the ridge on the active mine site although

regulations require that family members have access to these cemeteries requests are often not he's lee granted. on memorial day of two thousand and six keeps him in a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery they want a day we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery over there and we get to how all around and different things going on and i still to me a safety. zone and probably account forty ordered to get to cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a den of occasion and release forms the group is permitted to enter the mine site in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. sleet i. didn't mention i need to sign

a release to go visit don't seem to be. heard it's with you. the first waterhole i risk one man in my life was up then how high. the water was not there now we've got a seven six seven hundred foot high wall there now. my mama give me birth is not in the light. well. you can get to the cemetery through their color as your round. they used to be a road over here. for. five. one right here. over here is another one i want i hear. your people are taking part in history this land december third been here for two hundred seventy years never had as many people on it in the last hundred fifty years and ice time knocked out

a come through here they wouldn't or gentleness or kind the sense we've got a minister here i won't tell you what else they said to me. and these people flame beneath these graves the first time when julian come here four years ago we had kate's going to have dates on them they're no longer here if they hadn't been saying that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the words are down is going to say alan johnson want to say is we're just not been heard here for alone long time in mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection revoked a permit to massey energy to expand its plant and marsh fork elementary by building a second coal silo the d.e.p.t. determined that the second coal silo was placed outside the permitted boundary of three hundred feet from the school after maps of the preparation plant were found to be inaccurate.

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look. at how. how. how. how. well you know i could talk to as many folks as i have along the way that a lot of folks. we've raised a little money for. to come here and hopefully. sandberg and i feel that we have conflict all three of them and i believe this call

for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue you know is very important for me to walk on march fourteenth two thousand and seven the state board of surface mining overturned a west virginia department of environmental protections ruling that denied massey energy a permit to build a second coal silo behind the school this decision cleared the way for the expansion of massey energy's coal processing facility two days later a coalition of citizen conservation groups including mountain just a summer activists returned to west virginia governor joe manchin is office. thank. you. for her or her.

fault. and nailed first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining how sad right now are saying well tell her of the flood stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years and seven enemies canary the people in these capital used to be held accountable for. what i want to ask you to do you know what i'm going to do back to back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get back on tour. loser him or her clearly her. because we were going to school at the one you're going to care i ain't playing here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming. was.

whisper around my ear get this right now what they're offering their field will no . more meet in a whisper in the air why is right now we want results today we want our kids didn't . share. why does our kids hate their. four girls day in the coal fields. they're on the wrong side of the mound. we are the cradle they bring their money out of them out of the little farmer we need to be took care of her build our children. before the state get to miss you such as whether school should be a new school should be built a decision post first we have to look. i've heard the local school board with the

decision on a new school that march forward before i go to the people of raleigh. so they can determine the final outcome from themselves so i'm going to join me. now or could i hope that the. various members. you. can hear because these. may say. people. are still here who. are organizing. care. i suppose. i. shall try.

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